Alight Motion
78
Quality Score
Strong
Alight Motion
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Alight Motion is an iOS app from Bending Spoons Apps ApS in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 4.4★ across 64,849 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 78: Strong (healthy traction). For a Photo & Video app, that means healthy traction. The full BU Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$900K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$953K – $1467K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$1.1M – $2.1M
per month
BIG tierFREE
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Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$140K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $105K – $190K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~5 months at current MRR
Synthetic estimate. Inputs: category complexity, file size, screen count, monetization layer, platform reach, age × team-size proxy. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-agency rate surveys. Full math + source list on /methodology.
Where the money goes
| 🧱 MVP baseline (design + 1-store ship) | +$28K |
| 📱 5 unique screens × $4.5K | +$22K |
| 📦 Asset bundle (187 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Photo & Video complexity ×1.55 | +$49K |
Total estimate
$140K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$425K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $325K – $600K · 16× MRR multiple
💸
~3.0× return on build cost
Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from ad-supported + age, rating quality, category demand, and user-base maturity. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-app-marketplace closed-deal medians. Full math + comparable deal list on /methodology.
How the multiple was built
| 📺 Ad-supported base | 15× MRR |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
9.1M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
1.6M
Daily active
480K
Synthetic estimate from ratings × category benchmarks. Calibrated against 2024-2026 mobile-attribution retention + DAU/MAU reports. Numbers are US-storefront-equivalent — true global audience can be 5-10× larger for international apps. Full math + source list on /methodology.
How we sized it
| 📲 Photo & Video engagement | ~140 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Photo & Video D30 retention | 18% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
30% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$900K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$887K – $1.2M
12 months
$953K – $1.5M
24 months
$1.1M – $2.1M
Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Concerning · 46/100BIG TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)below benchmarksGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.4
Product Quality
7.3
Revenue Strength
6.0
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
5.1
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
4.8
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $360K - $1980K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.4★ across 64,849 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — bug mentions above category norm, rating drift -0.64 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 12-22× monthly = $10.8M-$19.8M. Discount applied for operational risk..
Composite of 8 dimensions computed deterministically from public signals — no LLM, every score traces back to a measurable input. Default weights shown; "compete" / "acquire" / "invest" lenses re-weight without re-fetching.
Range:
💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 10 of 10 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (64,849 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| frequent crashesREVIEW | −$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Multilingual (18 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Good rating (4.4★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Established app (6y old)METRIC | +$800 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🆕 What's New · v6.2.53
Hey creators! We have a quick update on this bright day: this is just to ensure that everything will work smoothly when you will be creating your masterpieces. Have an amazing time, fellas!
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Alight Motion
- Developer
- Bending Spoons Apps ApS
- Bundle ID
- com.alightcreative.motion
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, EN, FR, DE, HI, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, PT, RU, ZH, ES, TH, ZH, TR, VI
Company
- Website
- alightcreative.com
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $26.3K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇯🇵#52 /100 🇬🇧#76 /100 🇨🇦#87 /100 🇧🇷#91 /100 🇺🇸#94 /100
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
Founder data not yet collected for this app.
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- facebook facebook.com/alightcreative · instagram instagram.com/alightmotion · twitter twitter.com/alightcreative · youtube youtube.com/alightmotion
- Not found
- Phone
- 13250480962
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- Not found
📈Ratings growth64,849 ratings+47% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (9 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank5 countries
🇯🇵JP#52 /100
🇬🇧GB#76 /100
🇨🇦CA#87 /100
🇧🇷BR#91 /100
🇺🇸US#94 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#52 now · best #47 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
📝 About this app
Be part of the movement! Alight Motion is the first professional motion design app for your smartphone for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, bringing you professional-quality animation, motion graphics, visual effects, video editing, video compositing, and more!
• Multiple layers of graphics, video, and audio
• Vector and bitmap support (edit vector graphics right on your phone!)
• 160+ basic effect building blocks that can be combined to create sophisticated visual effects
• Keyframe animation available for all settings
• Link parent and child layers and rig character joints… View full description on the official store →
• Multiple layers of graphics, video, and audio
• Vector and bitmap support (edit vector graphics right on your phone!)
• 160+ basic effect building blocks that can be combined to create sophisticated visual effects
• Keyframe animation available for all settings
• Link parent and child layers and rig character joints… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 187 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 14.4+🔖 v6.2.53🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 AR, EN, FR, DE, HI +13📂 Photo & Video💰 Free
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
8 EVENTS TRACKEDDetected changes in this app over its tracked lifetime — each event links cause (what changed) to effect (what moved). Sorted newest first.See full history →Version history →
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.02 → 4.40 (improved 0.38★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-01
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-01
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-01
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2026-01
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.00 → 4.50 (improved 0.50★)
2026-01
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
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ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #25Ranked for 2 App Store search queryies in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
slow motion·#25🇺🇸video editor·#35🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 150 reviews across 2 markets● 64% positive · ● 11% neutral · ● 25% negative · Rating drift: -0.64★ (declining — recent 50: 3.76★ vs lifetime: 4.4★)
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇺🇸 US
+0.31
🇨🇦 CA
+0.25
Top praise themes
one editing ×3 pretty easy ×3 exporting process ×3 stuck loading ×3 loading screen ×3 better capcut ×3 amazing ×16 export ×12
Top complaint themes
effects genuinely ×3 export ×7 video ×7 audio ×6 ads ×6 work ×5 editing ×5 terrible ×5
Risk signals
Bug mentions: 15%
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.23202★ | 3,379 | 4.23202★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.18886★ | 8,726 | 4.18886★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.18499★ | 5,276 | 4.18499★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.21529★ | 2,708 | 4.21529★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.43655★ | 3,869 | 4.43655★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.24193★ | 7,370 | 4.24193★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.35213★ | 3,175 | 4.35213★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.49042★ | 17,016 | 4.49042★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.40046★ | 65,702 | 4.40046★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Alight Motion: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why high confidence: 64,849 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Alight Motion make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Alight Motion earns approximately $26K/mo. This is a US-storefront-equivalent estimate; global revenue can be several times larger for internationally-distributed apps. See the methodology page for the full formula and confidence bands.
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Who makes Alight Motion?▴
Alight Motion is published by Bending Spoons Apps ApS on the Apple App Store. See the full publisher portfolio (other apps by the same developer) via the More by developer block on the product page above.
What is Alight Motion's BU Score?▴
Alight Motion has a BU Score of 78/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.